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  • Get Out of Afghanistan
    by Charles V. Pena
    National Interest

  • Afghanistan: Groundhog Day
    Editorial
    The Guardian

  • America Is Performing Its Familiar Role of Propping Up a Dictator
    by Robert Fisk
    The Independent

  • Criminal Justice Rendered Impotent
    by Clara Gutteridge
    The Guardian

  • The Tortured Logic Continues
    by Amy Goodman
    Truthdig.com

  • Moving Gitmo Detainees to America Is Necessary
    Editorial
    South Carolina Herald

  • Hollow Victory
    by John J. Mearsheimer
    Foreign Policy

  • The U.S. in Afghanistan: Eight Years and Counting
    by Jack A. Smith
    Dissident Voice

  • Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano (Video)
    by Jacob Hornberger
    Fox News

  • Keeping Afghanistan Safe from Democracy
    by Robert Scheer
    Truthdig.com

  • Unicorns in Kabul
    by George F. Will
    Washington Post

  • Karzai's Our SOB Now
    Editorial
    Boston Herald

  • Afghanistan a Dangerous Diversion
    by Andrew J. Bacevich
    The Australian

  • Opium, Rape and the American Way
    by Chris Hedges
    Truthdig.com

  • Afghanistan a Success — Time to Come Home!
    by Karen Kwiatkowski
    LewRockwell.com

  • Afghan Insurgents: Terrorists, or Tea Partiers?
    by Justin Raimondo
    Antiwar.com

  • Transcripts of Defeat
    by Victor Sebestyen
    New York Times

  • The Universality of War Propaganda
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com

  • Getting Lost in Afghanistan
    by Gilles Dorronsoro
    The Guardian

  • Bring the Troops Home
    by Eugene Robinson
    Washington Post

  • Former Marine Captain Resigns in Protest of Afghanistan War
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com

  • High Cost, Low Odds
    by Stephen M. Walt
    The Nation

  • Americans Pull Strings in Afghan Election
    by Eric Margolis
    Toronto Sun

  • Why Are We Still in Afghanistan?
    by Gene Lyons
    Salon.com

  • Western Export of the Ballot Box Elixir Is Pure Hubris
    by Simon Jenkins
    The Guardian

  • It Matters Not Whether Obama Sends 20,000 or 40,000 Troops to Afghanistan
    by Haroon Siddiqui
    Toronto Star

  • Carrying the Heavy Burden of War
    by James Carroll
    Boston Globe

  • War Next Door Creates Havoc in Pakistan
    by Eric Margolis
    Toronto Sun

  • In a War for Democracy, Why Worry about Public Opinion?
    by Seumas Milne
    The Guardian

  • The Reverse-Midas Effect
    by Justin Raimondo
    Antiwar.com

  • Too Illegit to Quit
    by Ted Rall
    Uexpress.com

  • Saving Face in Afghanistan
    by Ron Paul
    U.S. House of Representatives

  • Be Bold, Obama. Resist the Hawks Crying One-Last-Push
    by Simon Jenkins
    The Guardian

  • Unintended Consequences in Nuclear Pakistan
    by Fred Branfman
    Truthdig.com

  • History Is Repeating Itself
    by Nancy T. Lindsay
    Milford Daily News

  • What Lies Beneath the War in Afghanistan
    by Eric Margolis
    Toronto Sun

  • Occupying Afghanistan Is Making Things Worse
    by Mark Weisbrot
    Common Dreams

  • Fire McChrystal and Get Out of Afghanistan
    by Ivan Eland
    Independent Institute

  • Eight Years of Big Lies on Afghanistan
    by James Bovard
    Future of Freedom Foundation
  • The Suffocatingly Narrow Afghanistan "Debate"
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com

  • A War of Absurdity
    by Robert Scheer
    Truthdig.com

  • Obama and the Afghan Abyss
    by Terry Michael
    Reason

  • The Afghan Disaster
    by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
    Ludwig von Mises Institute

  • McChrystal's Conundrum
    by Justin Raimondo
    Antiwar.com

  • Eight Years Later: The United States in Afghanistan
    by Gabriel Kolko
    Counterpunch.org

  • Fulfill Promise, and Bring Our Troops Home
    Editorial
    Boston Globe

  • The Hard and Bitter Truth
    by Bob Herbert
    New York Times

  • More than a Numbers Game in Afghanistan
    by Eugene Robinson
    Washington Post

  • America Has Been Here Before
    by Eric Margolis
    Toronto Sun

  • The Impotent Dictator
    by Ted Rall
    Uexpress.com

  • Prolonging Futility in Afghanistan
    by Steve Chapman
    Reason

  • To Escalate the Escalation?
    by Ivan Eland
    Independent Institute

  • Obama's Quagmire
    by Jeffrey T. Kuhner
    Washington Times

  • How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the War
    by Lewis Grossberger
    Newser.com

  • Let Poppies Grow: Bring Troops Home
    by Al Neuharth
    USA Today

  • The Looming Political War Over Afghanistan
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com

  • The Continual Selling of the Afghan War
    by William Blum
    Foreign Policy Journal

  • Obama Is Leading the U.S. into a Hellish Quagmire
    by Mark Ames
    Alternet.org

  • Obama's Meaningless War
    by Robert Scheer
    Truthdig.com

  • Obama's War
    by Dave Lindorff
    Counterpunch.org

  • Lesson of Vietnam Lost in Afghanistan
    by Stanley Kutler
    Truthdig.com

  • Today's Afghan Election Is a Moment of Truth for Zealous Liberal Aggressors
    by Simon Jenkins
    The Guardian

  • What If They Gave a War and Nobody Knew Why?
    by Ted Rall
    Uexpress.com

  • Afghan Elections Will Be a Farce
    by Eric Margolis
    Toronto Sun

  • Why Policy Matters
    by Charles Pena
    Independent Institute

  • When David Fought Goliath in Washington Square Park
    by Dwight Garner
    New York Times

  • Special Interests Cash in on Clunker Boondoggle
    by Timothy P. Carney
    Washington Examiner

  • West Ignores Lessons of Soviet Humiliation in Afghanistan
    by Victor Sebestyen
    London Times

  • War Without Purpose
    by Chris Hedges
    Truthdig.com

  • How Many More Will Die before We Withdraw?
    by Seumas Milne
    The Guardian

  • Obama Covers Up a Dozen My Lais
    by Ted Rall
    Uexpress.com

  • A Quagmire for Obama
    by Derrick Z. Jackson
    Boston Globe

  • Countries "Wasting Money and Blood" in Afghanistan
    by Sophia Gardner
    ABC News

  • In the Fog, Remember: Victory Is Impossible in Afghanistan
    by Matthew Parris
    London Times

  • Obama Must Call Off This Folly Before Afghanistan Becomes His Vietnam
    by Simon Jenkins
    The Guardian

  • Forgotten Coverage of Afghan "Freedom Fighters" (2002)
    by David N. Gibbs
    Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting

  • What War Looks Like
    by Chris Hedges
    New York Times

  • Debate: Should the United States Increase or Decrease Its Military Commitment to Afghanistan? (Video)
    with Jacob Hornberger, Max Boot, Christopher Preble, and
    Larry Goodson
    Donald and Paula Smith Foundation

  • Know When to Walk Away
    by Thomas Gale Moore
    Antiwar.com

  • Cambodia Déjà Vu: the Invasion of Pakistan
    by William Pfaff
    Truthdig.com

  • On Af-Pak: Stop "Helping"
    by Ron Paul
    U.S. House of Representatives

  • Becoming What We Seek to Destroy
    by Chris Hedges
    Truthdig.com

  • Conservative Historian Andrew Bacevich Warns Against Obama's Escalation of War in Afghanistan
    Democracy Now
  • The Af-Pak War: War for War's Sake
    by Christopher Dowd
    The Examiner

  • Why We Fight: U.S. Troops Die for Rapists
    by Ted Rall
    Uexpress.com

  • A Full-Court Press for Pakistan War
    by Chris Floyd
    Counterpunch

  • Pakistan Has World's Attention Now
    by Eric Margolis
    Toronto Sun

  • Minion of the Long War
    by C.G. Estabrook
    Counterpunch.org

  • Af-Pak Fever
    by Justin Raimondo
    Antiwar.com

  • Operation Incoherence
    by Alan Bock
    Antiwar.com

  • The "Long War" Will Be as Pointless and Bloody as Europe's
    by William Pfaff
    Antiwar.com

  • Afghan Death Trip
    by Ted Rall
    Uexpress.com

  • Another Lost War
    by William S. Lind
    Counterpunch.org

  • U.S. Sinking Deeper into Afghan Mess
    by Jim Hightower
    GoSanAngelo.com

  • Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President
    by Ray McGovern
    Consortium News

  • At Last We Get It -- This War is Vietnam for Slow Learners
    by Simon Jenkins
    The Guardian

  • Time to Quit Afghanistan
    by Eric Margolis
    Toronto Sun

  • Why Are We "Surging" into Afghanistan?
    by Jim Hightower
    Alternet.org

  • Gorby Smarter than Obama
    by Eric Margolis
    Toronto Sun

  • America's Confused Cause in Central Asia
    by William Pfaff
    Truthdig.com

  • Obama's Afghan Trap
    by Amy Goodman
    Truthdig.com

  • Afghan War Takes a Hit
    by Eric Margolis
    Toronto Sun

  • Torture, Slaughter, and Lies
    by Brian Cloughley
    Counterpunch.org

  • The Libertarian Case against the War in Afghanistan
    by David R. Henderson
    Canadian Journal of Ideas

  • The Harsh Lesson of Afghanistan: Little Has Changed in 200 Years
    by Ben Macintyre
    London Times

  • How Many Villages Must We Bomb Before We Find Bin Laden?
    by William Pfaff
    Truthdig.com

  • Afghanistan: Not a Good War Gone Bad
    by Larry Everest
    Counterpunch.org

  • Civilian Dead Are a Trade-Off in Nato's War of Barbarity
    by Seumas Milne
    The Guardian

  • The Reality of War in Afghanistan
    by Stephen Kinzer
    Boston Globe

  • Casualties of Another War
    by Tariq Ali
    The Guardian

  • Why Does the US Think It Can Win in Afghanistan?
    by Robert Fisk
    The Independent

  • An Anatomy of Collateral Damage
    by Tom Engelhardt
    Asia Times

  • The Government, the Media, and Afghanistan
    by Glenn Greenwald
    Salon.com

  • Precision, What Precision?
    by Richard Norton-Taylor
    The Guardian

  • Pouring Gas on the Afghanistan Bonfire
    by Chris Hedges
    Truthdig.com

  • The Afghan Fire Looks Set to Spread, But There Is a Way Out
    by Seumas Milne
    The Guardian

  • Afghanistan: The Brutal and Unnecessary War
    by Joshua Holland with
    Andy Worthington
    Alternet.org

  • Swan Song for NATO
    by Mike Whitney
    Counterpunch.org

  • The War that Can Bring Neither Peace Nor Freedom
    by Seumas Milne
    The Guardian

  • Fall Back, Men, Afghanistan Is a Nasty War We Can Never Win
    by Simon Jenkins
    London Times

  • The "Good War" Is a Bad War
    by John Pilger
    JohnPilger.com

  • We're Losing in Afghanistan Too
    by John Kiriakou and Richard Klein
    Los Angeles Times

  • How Can this Bloody Failure Be Regarded as a Good War?
    by Seumas Milne
    The Guardian

  • The Afghans Are Sick of Our Armies Killing Their People
    by Leo Docherty
    The Guardian

  • Afghanistan's Civilian Victims
    by Joanne Mariner
    Findlaw.com

  • History Repeats in Afghanistan
    by Ben Macintyre
    The Australian

  • The Taliban's Second Coming
    by Marc W. Herold
    Cursor.org

  • Red Kabul Revisited
    by Jonathan Steele
    The Guardian

  • A Scary Afghan Road
    by Nicholas D. Kristof
    New York Times

  • Taliban Ambush Patrols, Killing 8 Afghans
    by Noor Khan (A.P.)
    The Guardian

  • Afghans on Edge of Chaos
    by Robyn Dixon
    Los Angeles Times

  • Now We Pay the Warlords to Tyrannise the Afghan People
    by Isabel Hilton
    The Guardian

  • Karzai Powerless as Warlords Battle
    by April Witt
    Washington Post

  • In Afghanistan, Violence Stalls Renewal Effort
    by Carlotta Gall
    New York Times

  • U.S. Role Shifts as Afghanistan Founders
    by Marc Kaufman
    Washington Post

  • American Air Attack Mistakenly Kills 11 Afghans
    by Carlotta Gall
    New York Times

  • Afghan Women are Still Policed
    by Pamela Constable
    Washington Post

  • Details of U.S. Victory are a Little Premature
    by Eric Margolis
    Toronto Sun

  • Old Fears in the New Afghanistan
    by Christina Lamb
    New York Times

  • In Afghanistan, Guns Hold Sway Over Law
    by Chris Kraul
    Los Angeles Times


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